Happy swimmer testimonials
SwimSafer Holidays
The picture is of a charter speedboat my family were travelling on in Phuket, Thailand during the recent christmas holidays.
As you can see we were involved in a major incident and our boat sank rapidly in deep water. A very scary and panicked situation developed and we had to abandon ship quickly. Fortunately we were lucky to be rescued by another passing vessel and thankfully all of us returned safe and well.
My husband and I would like to thank you for not only teaching our children to swim confidently but also additional boat safety: as the swim in your clothes and rope rescue lessons proved invaluable during this experience. Our two girls, whilst frightened as events unfolded, were confident in their ability to jump from the boat into choppy seas with a life vest on and then followed instructions to pull themselves safely to the rescue boar via the rope.
It is very hard to express in words our thanks as the image of our children in the middle of the ocean is one that will stay with us forever. Significantly, our daughter Megan's first words once safely rescued were "wait till Brad hears I did a real life boat to boat rescue and swam in the ocean". Her pride in her ability to assist in her own rescue has allowed her to recover from the experience quicker than other children who had not had swimming lessons.
Thank you very much for the great job you do in teaching kids to swim confidently. Whilst we would always wish that the above events are never encountered by anyone else, please take great pride tat your swimming program greatly assisted our children to safely work through a life threatening experience.
Kind regards,
Phillip and Susan Barnes
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“Our two eldest children learnt to swim at Van Dyk's and have continued to swim and also play waterpolo. Bethany our eldest, won 3 gold and 2 bronze medals at the National School Swimming Championships last year as an 11 year old. Two of the gold medals were in individual events. She continues to have several current fastest times in Australia. Our youngest son Hamish could easily swim un-aided at the age of two, I believe due to Van Dyk's technique of not using flotation aids. I would like to thank all the staff at Van Dyk's, I credit them for the great grounding that has lead to our kids current swimming level.” Steve Dalgleish
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Our little boy just loves his lessons here! When he was not thriving in his lessons initially, the instructor suggested we change our lesson time and voilà he has never been happier! He has so much fun. The staff have excellent knowledge and wonderful enthusiasm toward learning. We went to "the other one down the road" initially and Van Dyke though smaller, gave 200% compared with the local competitor.
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